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The situation in Zaporizhia

At least Five people were injured in the explosion that took place on Tuesday. According to local authorities, it is registered in Zaporizhia, in the Russian-controlled city of Melitopol, next to the headquarters of the ZaTV television network. Thus, they confirmed that these five people were slightly injured and stated that there were group workers and other civilians among them, and clarified that there were no soldiers in the area.

energy crisis

The European Union (EU) hopes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will take note of the fall in gas prices, which is trading below 100 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) for the first time in months, and understands that energy weapon “turns against him”. “The fact that August prices crossed the 100 euro threshold yesterday is a positive, extremely positive message,” said Czech Minister Jozsef Síkela, whose country currently holds the Presidency of the European Council.

Reconstruction of Ukraine

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed today on the importance of Germany. Creating an architecture and mechanisms for the reconstruction of Ukraine integrated into that country’s path to the European Union (EU). In his speech at the opening of the international conference of experts for the reconstruction of Ukraine, which Germany held as the country holding the G7 term presidency and as the head of the European Commission, Scholz emphasized that “this is not a donors’ conference”. , but something “more fundamental”.

Reconstruction of Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed on Tuesday. “coordination” in the international financial effort for rebuilding your country during the war and called for the use of frozen Russian assets after the conflict and to support this cause. Pointing out that countries that want to support the rebuilding of their countries should move forward in the “consolidation of financial efforts”, the President of Ukraine said, “We need a platform for financial coordination.”

Macron’s request

French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to Pope Francis on Monday. Call Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill and US President Joe Biden in favor peace process in Ukraine. In an interview with Le Point magazine after a two-day visit to Italy and the Vatican, Macron commented on the details of his meeting with Pope Francis on Monday, where he spoke about the war in Ukraine, as well as the situation in the country. Caucasus, Middle East and Africa.

Chechen leader speaks

Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Tuesday, “Weak” response of authorities to Ukraine’s attacks on Russian territory. “We respond weakly,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram. According to the Chechen leader, who was recently promoted to the rank of colonel, “previously there was talk of a special military operation on Ukrainian soil”, but now “war is being waged” on Russian soil. “And if you’re interested in my opinion, I’m very unhappy about it,” he said.

annexed lands

A group of lawmakers from Russia’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party will present a proposal to the country’s Duma. law abolishing prison sentences For convicts convicted under the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the territory of Ukraine annexed by the Kremlin. According to the TASS agency, the measure will make it particularly effective to release prisoners from prisons in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions whose crimes are not registered in the Russian Criminal Code.

Trip of the President of Germany

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Kiev during his tenure. first visit to Ukraine since the war started To express their solidarity and support for the Ukrainian people and to see firsthand the situation in the country, the Russian aggression “I am very happy to be in Ukraine today. Russia has been waging a brutal and illegal war of aggression for eight months. For me especially at the moment, in a period of vile Russian airstrikes. “It is important to send a sign of solidarity to the Ukrainians during this period. According to the statement made by the Presidency, all over the country,” he said.

Coordination Council

Russian President Vladimir Putin is chairing the meeting of the coordination council he formed last week to meet the needs of the Russian Army during the military operation in Ukraine, which is now in its ninth month.

The head of the Kremlin signed the decree on the creation of the new coordination council on October 21.

The document indicates that the decision was driven by the need to strengthen coordination between the country’s federal and regional institutions to meet all the needs of the soldiers.

Russian Justice examines American Brittney Griner’s appeal

The Moscow District Court today considered the appeal of US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison for drug possession and trafficking. The hearing, in which the justice of the sentence handed down on August 4 by the Khimki (Moscow region) city court will be assessed, begins at 11:00 am (08:00 GMT). Later, the judge considered the athlete “guilty” of the offense stipulated in articles 228 and 229.1 of the Russian penal code (drug possession and trafficking).

Ukraine suffered 85 attacks on 51 electrical installations in October alone

According to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, since the start of the war on February 24, Russia has launched 85 attacks on Ukrainian electrical installations, 51 of which were registered in October alone. “This is a policy of destroying Ukrainians by creating unsuitable conditions for life. As winter approaches, Russian leaders are deliberately depriving people of basic things: water, electricity, heating,” Kostin said in Telegram.

Zelensky says Russia will “never again” become a country of influence in the world

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky decided on Monday that Russia will “never again” become a subject who can dictate “nothing to anyone”, arguing that the country led by President Vladimir Putin has lost international influence. “Russia will never again be a subject who can dictate anything to anyone. There is no longer the potential to dictate anything to anyone. The world sees this. Russia’s potential is now wasted in this madness: in a war against our state and our state. The whole free world,” he said.

IAEA to send inspector to Ukraine after Russian ‘dirty bomb’ accusations

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on Monday that it will send an inspectorate to two nuclear facilities in Ukraine at the request of the Kyiv authorities.

The dispatch of investigators is related to Russia’s accusations that Ukraine may use a “dirty bomb”. This is something rejected by Kyiv.

“The IAEA is ready to visit these places in the coming days,” the UN nuclear agency said in a statement.

Zelensky: “Ukraine broke the world’s second army”

Eight months into the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that Ukraine had “smashed the world’s second army” and from now on Russia would be “a beggar” because in this conflict Russia would be a “beggar”. has lost all its military, economic and political potential at the global level.

“Russia will never again be a subject who can dictate something to someone. There is no longer the potential to dictate. The world sees this. Russia’s potential is now wasted on this madness: in a war against our state and the entire freedom. The world.” , Zelensky stated in his usual nightly speech.

In his message on the occasion of the eight months since the start of the war, Zelensky assured that “Ukraine has smashed the so-called ‘second army of the world’ and from now on Russia will be just a beggar”.

NATO denies Russia’s dirty bomb accusations

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday dismissed Russian suspicions of the possible use of a dirty bomb by Ukraine, a thesis described by the Alliance leader as “absurd” and which has not received any international approval and was also rejected by it. kiiv.

“The accusation that Ukraine is preparing to use dirty bombs in Ukraine is absurd,” Stoltenberg said in an interview with Politico at Atlantic Alliance headquarters in Brussels, adding that Kiev was “fighting hard to save” its territory.

“What worries us is that it’s part of a pattern we’ve seen before in Russia, in Syria, and also at the start of the war or just before the war started in February. And that’s what they think they do for Russia to blame others,” he added. .

Ukraine and the West join forces against Russia’s “dirty war”

Ukraine and the West joined forces today against the Kremlin’s diplomatic campaign in Kiev to denounce the possible use of a “dirty bomb”, a radioactive but not atomic bomb, that Russia will take to the UN.

“Russia’s dirty blackmail looks very primitive,” said Andriy Yermak, Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, on his Telegram channel.

The Russian accusations, accompanied by multiple phone calls by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to his Western colleagues, came amid international concerns over Russia’s plans to use nuclear weapons during its “special military operation” in Ukraine.